Quotes About Leadership

We're fortunate my brother Stannis is not with us. Remember that time he proposed to outlaw brothels?

No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.

I will not eat Craster's food, he decided suddenly. "I broke my fast with the men, my lord." Jon shooed the raven off Longclaw. The bird hopped back to Mormont's shoulder, where it promptly shat. "You might have done that on Snow instead of saving it for me," the Old Bear grumbled. The raven quorked.

A queen must listen to all," she reminded him. "The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

I'll have no songs about how brave you died, Kingmaker. There's tens o'thousands dead on your account.

Kings are supposed to put the realm before their sisters.

Tyrion pushed forward. "MY LORDS! " he shouted. He had to shout, to have any hope of being heard. His father raised a hand. Bit by bit, the hall grew silent.

If I am ever Hand again, the first thing I'll do is hang all the singers," said Tyrion, too loudly.

And I know that a king protects his people, or he is no king at all.

There are fights no sword can win, Catelyn wanted to tell him, but she feared the king was deaf to such words.

Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King's Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. Words are wind, and the wind is always blowing at the Wall.

The King's Hand should have a hand," the Hand said "I will not have men speaking of the King's Stump

When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander.

I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

He bound the land together, and made of seven kingdoms, one.

I've never been frightened of shepherds. It's the sheep who trouble me.

Thank the Good Master for his patient kindness," Dany said, "and tell him that I will think on all I learned here." She gave her arm to Arstan Whitebeard, to lead her back across the plaza to her litter. Aggo and Jhogo fell in to either side of them, walking with the bowlegged swagger all the horselords affected when forced to dismount and stride the earth like common mortals.

Rhaegar had put his hand on Jaime's shoulder. "When this battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but … well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return.

Look at these oafs, Ned. My wife insisted I take these two to squire for me, and they're worse than useless. Can't even put a man's armor on him properly. Squires, they say. I say they're swineherds dressed up in silk." Ned only needed a glance to understand the difficulty. "The boys are not at fault," he told the king. "You're too fat for your armor, Robert.

A man like Tywin Lannister comes but only once in a thousand years.

A young girl she might be, but Daenerys Targaryen was the only thing that held them all together.

Davos said. I was trying to win the throne to save the kingdom, when I should have been trying to save the kingdom to win the throne.

If I fight, they must do the same, or they are less than dwarfs. "You won't hear me shout out Joffrey's name," he told them. "You won't hear me yell for Casterly Rock either. This is your city Stannis means to sack, and that's your gate he's bringing down. So come with me and kill the son of a bitch!